Smart Mobility Projects and Trials Across the World

Connected and automated vehicles … MaaS … Public transport … Driverless shuttles … there’s so many pilot programs, projects, and trials of Smart Mobility, Intelligent Transport Systems, and related industries taking place across the world, we thought you might find this list handy in order to get an idea of what’s going on.

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2020/07

USA

Smart Columbus: Connected Vehicle Environment pilot

Deployment of a Connected Vehicle Environment along seven major corridors, including 16 of the top 100 high-crash intersections in Columbus. Due to go live in July 2020.

Cohda Wireless has been given permission to trial its two V2X-enabled Lincoln cars in an Adelaide city block bordered by Flinders and Wakefield streets and Divett and Gawler Places. The trials will require 30 days notice, will be cleared of other vehicles, and testing will take place over 2 years.

Test of Integrated Roadways' Smart Pavement product, in which electronics are embedded into concrete beneath the road's surface, allowing it to record the speed, weight, and direction of vehicles via the embedded sensors.

Testing of the Olli self-driving shuttle. Test is to run first at DTU Lyngby Campus, before widening to a trial in Albertslund Municipality. The end goal of the trial is use of the Ollie on the 28-kilometer long Greater Copenhagen Light Rail.

A four-year project, involving 16 partners, testing various autonomous vehicles, from 4- to 16-seat. There are three themes in the test: autonomous driving, optimisation of itineraries, and in- and out- of vehicle services.

A 6-month pilot program to bring an on-demand self-driving car service to Frisco, Texas. Rides will be offered to over 10,000 people in self-driving vehicles within a geo-fenced area comprised of retail, entertainment, and office space.

A long-term vision for technology in the rail industry over the next 30 years, through the establishment of a common view of priorities, themes, timelines and actions. Partners in this are Rail Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre, the Australasian Railway Association, and Deakin University. Expected completion date: 31 December 2018.

A trial operation between Toyota and Park24, with the aim of developing a new service that leverages Toyota's Mobility Services Platform (MSPF). Sixty Toyota C-HRs have been designated as the vehicles for use, and the trial is scheduled for a 10-month period from June 2018 to the end of March 2019.

Using LoRaWAN networks. and working with Semtech and X-TELIA, Montreal is trialling solar-powered digital signs on its bus shelters. In phase 1, the next scheduled arrival times will be displayed. In phase 2, "hey will show information in real time, allowing users to better plan their trips."

With £4.7 million from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, the AutopleX consortium will 'develop fully- and semi-automated vehicle technologies through simulation and public road testing both on motorways and in urban environments in the West Midlands'. In the consortium are: Jaguar Land Rover, INRIX, Highways England, Ricardo, Siemens, Transport for West Midlands, and the University of Warwick.

The Volkswagen Group is testing an autonomous parking service for VW, Audi, and Porsche vehicles at Hamburg Airport, that will not only make parking easy and convenient, but also see the parked car possibly function as a delivery spot for parcels.

Trailers at Frankfurt Airport have been equipped with camera systems that will continuously record how full the trailer is. Once a certain loading level has been reached, a control system automatically requests an autonomous truck for transportation. This project is scheduled to run until mid-2020.

Graz University of Technology and corporate partner AVL List GmbH are developing methodologies for the quality assurance of cyber-physical systems, using the example of autonomous vehicles. The work will be conducted at the Christian Doppler lab, and is set to run for 7 years.

Oxbotica's CargoPod spent 3.5 weeks running autonomously along a cargo route around the airside perimeter at Heathrow Airport. The trial collected over 200km of data that will enable IAG and Heathrow to assess potential opportunities for the use of autonomous vehicles in airport environments of the future.

Australian transport users across the nation are surveyed to better understand their appreciation of, and interest in on-demand transport services. That research will be analysed to offer insight into preparing a pathway forward for on-demand transport services in Australia.

This is a two-part trial. The first sees a test of CAV technologies in passenger cars (Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors), both on track and on roads in Coventry and Milton Keynes. The second part is the trial of an on-demand, point-to-point public transport system of 40 driverless pods in Milton Keynes.

Focus is on improving, updating and enriching HD Maps with road marking and traffic signs on the Maasvlakte-Venlo corridor, covering approx. 200 km. The next phase will be set up on the basis of the pilot results. HD Maps provide a highly accurate model of the road network which enables the self-driving car to manoeuvre very accurately and determine its exact location. Partners: Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the province of Noord-Brabant, V-Tron, and mapmaking company AND.

Exploration of a new way to pay for roads and bridges. Testing a road usage charge where drivers would simulate paying for the miles they drive rather than the gallons of gas they buy, via the enrolment of at least 2,000 drivers throughout Washington to participate in this pilot project.

Taking place in Canberra, a 2-year research partnership between the ACT Government and Canberra company, Seeing Machines. Phase 1: collection of data from ACT community drivers on the Sutton Road test track facility;
Phase 2: collection of data with specific details to be defined by 30 June 2018.

The SAVVY project is positioned to seek innovative and disruptive solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) aiming to mimic human behaviour and learning, to support complex decision making in a multitude of traffic scenarios, weather conditions, interaction with pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. Project completion: August 2020.

Aims to improve the ability of road authorities to predict network performance in the short-term using data-driven analytics and to estimate the impact of automated vehicles (AVs) in longer-term predictions.

AUTOPILOT brings together relevant knowledge and technology from the automotive and the IoT value chains in order to develop IoT-architectures and platforms which will bring automated driving towards a new dimension. Project completion: December 2019.

Planning intermodal and general logistics infrastructure for the future needs of Perth

Related research streams to support the Westport Taskforce in planning for the Outer Harbour at Kwinana and the associated road and rail links as part of the long term integrated transport plan for Western Australia.

Ford testing its business model for autonomous vehicles in Miami-Dade County. Questions Ford is looking to answer include: Before a self-driving vehicle makes a delivery, how will employees stock it and send it off? At the end of its journey, how will customers interact with the vehicle to retrieve their food or groceries, and how far from their homes are they willing to walk to get it? What benefits could and should people get from a self-driving experience?

A partnership between the Minnesota Department of Transportation and WSP USA to transform a major state highway west of Minneapolis into a road capable of testing and deploying numerous applications for safety and mobility.

A partnership between Transdev and Transport for New South Wales will see 10 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Transfer Minibus trialled in an on-demand service later this year in metropolitan Sydney - in Sutherland Shire, Manly, and the Eastern Suburbs.

On-road trial projects on the streets of Adelaide to test how vehicles communicate to one another and with roadside infrastructure, as well as expanding the Cohda's work in Vehicle to Everything communications (V2X).

A 3-year trial of truck platooning trials on public roads. Participants: Scania, DB Schenker, Volvo, the Royal Institute of Technology, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), and the Swedish Transport Administration.

Development and demonstration of autonomous driving functionality (SAE Level 4 autonomy) for Arrival Automotives electric T4 Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV), over a 10-mile route on mixed public roads in South Gloucestershire, and of driverless parking/manoeuvring in UPS depots.

The Capri consortium will take forward current research and development
work on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and lead the way to the
new generation of PODs capable of safely operating within normal traffic on public roads. Concludes in Winter 2019.

Laying the foundation for a future European transport platform that will provide citizens with a single access point for buying a ticket to their destination, which may include private vehicle parking as well as journeys by train, plane, subway and/or bus. Concludes June 2022.

Project ACCRA proposes to use CAV technology to address one of the most pressing public health issues affecting urban areas across the UK,
Europe and worldwide - poor air quality due to vehicle emissions. The project is running in Leeds, and is due to finish in June 2018.

"The MERGE Greenwich project will simulate how AVs can deliver commercially viable services that complement and enhance existing transport solutions. The consortium will investigate ways to improve travel around cities, reduce total vehicle journeys and emissions, using innovative developments in electric and autonomous vehicles." The evalaution and pilot will run from 2018 to 2021, after which project participants will look to scale and commercialise AV ridesharing.

Project Synergy will introduce innovative technologies to operate connected autonomous cars in a platoon formation from Stockport railway station directly to the Arrivals terminal at Manchester Airport. Also, a platoon of three pods will transit passengers to and from a car park in the airport to the passenger terminals. Lastly, the project will facilitate inclusive accessible transport for the aged and the visually impaired.

"DRIVEN is an ambitious project that will see a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles being deployed in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in multiple end-to-end journeys between London and Oxford." Project completion: December 2019.

The SWARM project will facilitate collaboration between Milton Keynes Council, RDM and Warwick University researchers. It will look to fuse together existing information from other vehicles in the fleet to allow each autonomous pod to locally decide the most appropriate action for the group as a whole, similar to how insects and birds currently behave. The SWARM project will run until mid-2019.

"As Automated Vehicles (AVs) will be deployed in mixed traffic, they need to interact safely and efficiently with other traffic participants. The interACT project will be working towards the safe integration of AVs into mixed traffic environments. In order to do so, interACT will analyse todays human-human interaction strategies, and implement and evaluate solutions for safe, cooperative, and intuitive interactions between AVs and both their on-board driver and other traffic participants."

Safe Strip aims to introduce technology that will embed C-ITS applications into existing road infrastructure, including I2V and V2I communications, as well as VMS/VSL functions into low-cost, integrated strip markers on the road. Concludes April 2020.

Research and develop an innovative assurance methodology to assure that
vehicles and their components have been designed and tested to the relevant
cybersecurity standards throughout their lifecycle. Funded by Innovate UK. Consortium partners: HORIBA MIRA, Ricardo, Roke, Thatcham Research, and Axillium Research.

The Australian Integrated Multimodal Ecosystem (AIMES) is a transport test bed area, incorporating 100 kilometres of Melbourne roads on the fringe of the CBD, run by the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with Cubic Transportation Systems, and 37 business and government partners.

A challenge to state and local public sector transportation infrastructure owners and operators to cooperate together to achieve deployment of DSRC infrastructure with SPaT broadcasts in at least one corridor or network (approximately 20 signalised intersections) in each of the 50 states by January 2020.

The project name is 'Technologie für automatisiertes Fahren, die nutzergerecht optimiert wird', translated into English as 'Technology for automated driving, optimised to the benefit of the user'. Its aim is to improve the user’s experience and acceptance of automated driving functions for trucks. Project concludes mid-2020.

EastLink, in partnership with VicRoads, ARRB, La Trobe University and RACV, is conducting an 18-month trial of automated vehicle technologies on the 39km EastLink tollway, connecting the Eastern, Monash, Frankston and Peninsula Link freeways.

Main Roads WA is conducting truck platooning trials in a controlled environment on non-public roads to glean how the technology might be safely applied to autonomous heavy vehicles on Australian roads.

A collaboration between RDM and Warwick University researchers, to develop a simulator concept, to enable the design, test and evaluation of Autonomous
Control Systems (ACS), and of passenger interactions, public
interactions, perception and acceptance.

Primarily focussed on reducing the timescale and cost of validating Automated Driving Systems (ADS). The project involves the live trial of vehicles fitted with ADS in real world conditions on the roads of Greenwich, London. The final report is to be delivered in July 2019.

TALON will provide both transit authorities and fleet managers the tools they need to not only plan and design the introduction of CAVs but also to operate the optimum services to meet our changing mobility needs. Partners: Immense, Improbable, and Cubic Transportation Systems. TALON concludes in May 2019.

A 3-year project run by Innovate UK, aiming to "develop products and services that maximise the benefits of CAVs for users and transport authorities." Testing is run on public roads in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire region.

Creation of a testing environment for connected and autonomous vehicles, incorporating over 40 miles of urban roads, interurban A roads and expressways around Coventry and Warwickshire. Three V2X technologies will be tested — LTE, ITS-G5, and WiFi, along with feasability for LTE-V. The project will establish how technology can improve journeys, reduce traffic congestion, and provide in-vehicle entertainment and safety services through better connectivity. Concludes December 2018.

GATEway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) sees a fleet of driverless pods providing a shuttle service on a 3.4km route around the Greenwich Peninsula to understand public acceptance of, and attitudes towards, driverless vehicles.

Test and evaluation of a fully autonomous, electric shuttle bus. Trialed on public roads on the South Perth foreshore since 31 August 2016. Partners: Royal Auto Club (WA), Western Australia State Government.

Examination of the opportunity to use new, electric, autonomous mini-buses to provide transport links between Cambridge's science campuses, park and ride locations and rail stations, along with the benefits in reducing traffic congestion, improve air quality, and solve commuting difficulties in the Cambridge region.

Jointly funded by government and industry, i-Motors is a consortium of innovative academic and commercial organisations with a vested interest in making i-Motors a world leader in CAV (connected and autonomous vehicles), V2X (vehicle to anything) and smart mobility systems.

The name is acronym, Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems to support incapacitated drivers Mitigate Effectively risks through tailor-made HMI under automation. Multiple projects and approaches. Concludes February 2020.

$20 million to advance innovative Connected Vehicle (CV) and infrastructure application concepts, as part of the Department of Transportation (USDOT) national Connected Vehicle Pilot deployment program.

Development of a suite of applications that utilise vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the impact of adverse weather on truck travel in the I-80 corridor.

Alleviate congestion and improve safety during morning commuting hours. Deploy a variety of connected vehicle technologies on and in the vicinity of reversible express lanes and three major arterials in downtown Tampa to solve the transportation challenges.

Taking place in Bristol and South Gloucestershire region, this project ends in July 2018. It this trial looks the 'blockers of drivers' in the wide scale adoption of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), plus "The Venturer trials go hand in hand with developing an understanding of the insurance and legal implications of increased vehicle autonomy."